Fresh Start

Jun 17, 2008 by Dan Taylor    10 Comments    Posted under: Uncategorized

Sometimes in life you get a fresh start. Sometimes this is a welcome change, in fact, a relief. Other times, this is due to some massive mistake that would take a really…really…long time to fix. Other times, it’s just ‘unfixable’.

I’m hoping it’s more of an option 1 for me, rather than an option 2. As you know, I recently moved hosts, and had to take the site with me, and then set it up on a new server. I followed a bunch of advice forums, tutorials, and comments, and felt as though I had done everything to the letter. Crossed all my t’s, dotted all my i’s. And so it seemed that way. Everything looked fine once I had FTP access, did the Fantastico WP installation, uploaded plugins, etc. Great. And then….

Well, the and then part is where things start to get sticky. Upon trying to import my mysql database, everything got funky. I started getting a bunch o’ weird 404 errors. So, my first thought had to do with the subdomain. As you may have already read in the previous post, I’ve set up a redirect on turnthescrew.com to actually take you to blog.turnthescrew.com. So…perhaps I just need to change all the instances of turnthescrew.com to blog.turnthescrew.com in the mysql database. Did that via a handy free tool, textwrangler. All looked good. Let’s cross our fingers and upload.

Well, WP sees the mysql db as being valid, but now has a bunch of widget errors, incorrect arguments, etc….

Oye vey. Bottle is giving me a hand with this one, and we’re testing over at a super secret URL right now, but as it looks right now…ummm…I kinda f@#)ed up the database. I’m not overly stressed, as there must be a simple solution to this…something that I’m just over looking. Either way, I still have 99% of the original content, it just might be a mind bogglingly big project to copy/paste a massive amount of content, and then restructure the permalinks to match up. Right…all you non-super-nerds out there catch all of this?

In human terms: Umm…I think I made a booboo, but I think I can fix it. Either the easy way, or the annoyingly hard way…it’ll all be back soon.

Rebuilding – Slowly

Jun 15, 2008 by Dan Taylor    12 Comments    Posted under: Uncategorized

Hmmm…ok. Bear with me here folks. As you can see, TTS is back, but in a Humpty Dumpty kinda way.

If you’ve made it thus far, you’ll notice that you’ve been redirected from turnthescrew.com to blog.turnthescrew.com. Yay…I managed that much.

Pretty much everything works just the way it should…except we’re missing over a year’s worth of content. This should, technically, be no problem, as I exported the database that was sitting on the former host’s server. This is where things start to go crazy. Upon uploading the backed up database, the front page appears, along with the associated content, BUT any linked articles, pages, sections of the site show up as 404 errors.

Hmmmm…well…the data is there, I’m just somehow not making the connection. As I said…this should be a learning process for us all.